The purpose of this blog is to chronicle all of my fitness endeavors, from bodybuilding to kettlebell instruction and everything in between. There have been many trials and tribulations along the way. I hope to motivate, inspire, and encourage someone who may need support. I also share workouts, videos, and other fitness related information.

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Saturday, October 13, 2007

The making of a pull-up bar

Well, I've been getting some requests to see our homemade pull-up bar. We basically designed it after looking at a variety of different designs on the crossfit.com forums. Our final design was a really simple. It was easy to put it together. The most challenging part was the installation, but only because our stud finder was crap. It took us Saturday evening & Sunday morning to finish it up; had our stud finder been better, we could've finished this puppy in 2 hours. We've since purchased a Zircon 60371 i65 OneStep Wood, Metal, and Live Wire Stud Sensor from amazon.com, which is great! We've had our bar installed for a little over a month, and I use it frequently (am currently going through a P90X rotation, which is very pull-up intensive). The best part about the bar is that we designed it to meet our exact specifications. We can also add to it later on if we want to make it versatile for use with more clients. We also installed a 100lb heavy bag that day that I purchased from Craiglist (gotta love it!).

9 comments:

I have been reading your blog, which I found through the AOS forums. I don't post... just a lurker for now as I am just starting my fitness journey with kettlebells. Anyway... thanks for all the very useful information on your blog. I am in Houston and would love to keep in touch with you. Did you make it to the RKC certification this past week?

Hello, i've stumbled across your pull up setup just now and was wondering if you could post step by step on how you set this up? Do ALL the screws including the 4 wood screws (how long were they? roughly?) and the 8 3/8" lag screws for the flanges go into the ceiling joists?